Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The Terre Haute police arrested three men cn information given by a farmer that they had been to his place and tried to work a confidence name on him, but as he was a reader of news-papers he declined to be bled. The men gave their names as Parker. Kerns, and Forbes. There could be no charge made against them at Terre Haute, and they were held to await information from the other localities. It turns out they are wanted in Jackson County, this State, for swindling a farmer named Znch Deputy out of $3,000 in cash and a note for S6OO. Mr. Deputy, who is quite wealthy, was considered a good subject to work upon. One of the men visited the farm of Mr. Deputy, into whose good graces he proceeded to get, which object was accomplished by paying very profuse compliments to his farm, etc. Finally the visitor became so much in love with the place that he determined to buy it. He didn’t care what it cost. His father-in-law, at Fort Wayne, whom he represented to be the President of the bank, was literally reeking with wealth. He would bring down the old gentleman in a day or so and let him see the place. Mr. Deputy was much elated at the prospect of selling his farm at a bargain, and the dutiful “son-in-law” accordingly brought down the “old gentleman" the next day. The farm seemed to please them very much. With Mr. Deputy they drove out on the road. Of course, they met another man, quite unexpectedly. Would they like to be one of the beneficiaries in the new scheme he is getting up? The “old gentleman” and the “son-in-law” were willing. It was the same old story. Mr. Deputy had money in the bank. He drew $3,000, hoping, presumably, to carry home with him three or 1 our times that much. He supposed his money had been returned to him, because when moving off, in order to keep him from following them, the three swindlers threw back a package much resembling his, with a $lO note on the outside and the rest Confederate money and advertisements. —The oldest woman in this State is Mrs. Mngadalene Boggs, who resides with har daughter, Mrs. Ann llothermel, at Milton, Wayne County. Mrs. Boggs was born on December 22, 1783, at Elizabethtown, Lancaster County. Pa. Her father, Peter Shafer, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He died in 1818 at the age of 97. She was married to Alexander Boggs in 1801. Mrs. Boggs is the mother of eleven children, four of whom are living, the oldest being 81 and the youngest 64. She has forty-eight grandchildren, ninety great-grandchildren, and twelve great-great-grandchildren. One of her grandchildren is over 50 years old, and one of her great-great-grandchildren is over 25. He is editor of the Latham Signal in Butler County, Kus. Mrs. Boggs is able to make her bed, and does all her own sowing. During the past year she has pieced a dozen quilts. Her faculties are all well preserved. She enjoys good health and her appetite is remarkably good. —A disease resembling distemper is becoming prevalent among the horses in the vicinity of Martinsville. It attacks young horses more frequently than old ones, but very few of the latter have been afflicted yet. The animal’s throat swells to a very large size, so as to make it difficult, if not impossible to swallow anything. The swollen part rarely breaks, but emits matter freely when lanced. Several horses have died of the disease and it is spreading continually. It is slow in its effects but quite fatal. —The water from the artesian well at Martinsville is attaining a wide reputation for, the cure of rheumatism and liver and kidney diseases, and is being shipped to Spencer, Gosport, Mooresville and other places, on account of its excellent medical qualities. All who use it are enthusiastic in praising its good qualities. People visit the well from early morning until late at night, drinking the water and carrying it away in jugs, cans, buckets, and kegs. —William Patterson, of Indianapolis,was instantly killed at Lafayette. Patterson stepped fiom an engine on the Lake Erie and Western road to the track of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago. A locomotive on the road came rushing by. He attempted to step off the track, but his foot caught in the double rail and held him fast. He was horribly mangled. —A terrible murder and robbery occurred near Fredericksburg, Washington County, recently. John Hertel and Daniel Wyninger, long time enemies, met on the turnpike, renewed their quarrel and finally ended it by Hertel stabbing Wyninger to death with a huge butcher knife. Hertel then robbed the dead man of $2,000 and fled. —A stranger was accidentally and instantly killed by the local passenger train, near the depot of the Pittsburgh road, at Fort Wayne. He hailed from Chicago, was apparently a tramp, and probably insane. There was nothing found on his person to lead to his identification. —Edward T. Brush, switchman in the yards of the Pennsylvania Company, at Fort Wayne, while coupling cars, fell under the cars and was run over, causing death shortly afterward. Deceased was 30 years of age and leaves a family. —Silas Shrayer, a Bartholomew County farmer, while driving an ox-team attached to a threshing engine descending a hill, fell off, the wheels passing over him, crashing him badly and injuring him internally. He cannot recover. —Marshal Ellis, of Wabash, went to Marion in pursuit of thieves, and put up at a hotel over night. He got up in the night and walked out of a second-story window, falling thirty feet.